Chapter Salt Lake City

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ERA provided structural engineering services for Chapter SLC, a 389,000sf mixed-use student housing development in Salt Lake City, UT.

The six to eight-story development features 251 residential units with up to 693 beds and 170 structured parking stalls. Five stories of wood-frame construction are supported by a post-tensioned concrete podium that varies from one to three levels across the sloping site, with residential and amenity spaces incorporated around the parking levels. Located in a high-seismic region, the building utilizes wood-framed shear walls above cast-in-place concrete shear walls at the podium levels to provide a continuous lateral load path to the foundations. A unique structural challenge was accommodating the upper-level pool and amenity deck, which required dedicated concrete and steel framing to address significant gravity and seismic loads while integrating with the surrounding wood-framed structure.

Rendering by Lamar Johnson Collaborative

Location	Salt Lake City, UT
Market	Residential, Student Housing
Year Completed	Slated for August 2028
Sq. Ft.	389,000
Units	251
Team Collaboration	Owner/Developer: CRG & Cole West Architect: Lamar Johnson Collaborative General Contractor: Headwaters Construction Company Structural Engineer: ERA Structural Engineering
Structural Systems	Wood framing Post-tensioned concrete Cast-in-place concrete shear walls Wood-framed shear walls Structural steel Concrete foundations

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Location

Salt Lake City, UT

Market

Residential, Student Housing

Year Completed

Slated for August 2028

Sq. Ft.

389,000

Units

251

Team Collaboration

Structural Systems